If you’ve been following me for a little while you know that I’m passionate about freezer meals and I also love Trim Healthy Mama (THM). I love that you are into these things also.  What can be better than finding great ways to feed your family well and yet not stress over it because you are prepped and prepared.

One thing I regular admit to struggling with is getting in my healthy carb lower fat meals.  To us THMers we call these meals E meals or energizing meals.  Today I want to share with you an easy and wonderful THM E meal!

Chickpea Stew THM E

I love the THM cookbooks but I’m always watching for other great recipes.  I found this one over at the Healthier Steps Blog.  The recipe on the blog gives very thorough and great details, but of course, I wanted to make this even easier.

What could make it easier you say?  The Instant Pot of course!  I used canned chickpeas and basically, just threw everything listed in the pot!  I set it on the medium soup setting so that it went for 40 minutes.

While the pressure cooker was doing its magic I cooked up some brown rice to serve with this also.  You could do quinoa instead of the rice if you want or you could even throw the rice or quinoa right in with the stew if you wanted a thicker stew.

Rainy Day Stew

There you go a great stew for a cool rainy day this spring.  You won’t regret it and you will love the leftovers for an easy filling snack or fast lunch.

As always thanks for joining me today and I hope you will take a few minutes to make extra of this up and freeze it for your freezer meal this week.  If you do you can be quickly done cooking for the week in just a few minutes with minimal cleanup!

Spinach and Artichoke Dip Stuffed Chicken

Have you missed me? I’ve taken way too long of a blogging break but don’t worry my family has still been eating so I have LOTS of posts to shoot at you!  I’m starting back up today with a super easy recipe Spinach and Artichoke Dip Stuffed Chicken.

If you know anything about me you will know how much I appreciate quick and easy meals.  It may not seem like that is the case because they are always so good but easy is what I’m always looking for.  This stuffed chicken recipe is super yummy and takes about 20 minutes to make four pans.

20 Minutes and dinner is done ALL WEEK!

Why am I making four pans you ask?  If you haven’t checked out my Freezer Meal Theory you definitely should! You can learn how to make wonderful meals for your family each evening but only spend ONE day in the kitchen.  ONE day, yes that’s right!  This week that one day only consists of 20 minutes also.  Come on over and join the easy dinner life with us!

Spinach and Artichoke Dip Stuffed Chicken

This recipe starts with some big boneless skinless Chicken Breasts.  Take each breast and cut them into two pieces.  I do this to make two more square size pieces not two long skinny pieces.  Does that make sense?  Once you cut them you then need to slice them so that you can stuff them with the dip.

Once they are cut I lay them in a 9×13 greased pan.  I take the store-bought spinach dip and spoon it into the chicken.  Cover it back up.  If you have extra dip leftover you can also put some on top.  After they are stuffed I seasoned them with salt and pepper.  You could also use a chicken seasoning.  Top with some parmesan cheese and you are good to go!

Freeze these and when you are ready to eat them, thaw them and bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.

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Spinach and Artichoke Dip Stuffed Chicken

This makes on 9x13 pan.  To make your freezer meals for the week you will want to quadruple this recipe!

Ingredients

• 3 Large Skinless Boneless Chicken Breasts
• 1 160z Spinach and Artichoke dip Sugar-free I found mine at Walmart
• Salt and Pepper
• Parmesan Cheese

Instructions

1. Cut your chicken breasts in two the short way.

2. Cut a slice through the thick part of each breast and lay in your greased 9x13 pan.

3.  Place a scoop (1-2T) of the dip into the chicken and recover.

4. Top the Chicken with the leftover dip and season with salt and pepper.

5. Top it off with Parmesan Cheese.

6. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.

Happy “done with dinner (for the week) in 20 minutes” week!!

We are all busy, so with that, I ask who doesn’t struggle with dinner time? It doesn’t help that dinner time comes when everyone gets home from school and they need food, want to show you their art project, need to tell you what happened at school, and so so soooo much more.  How amazing would it feel if you could just focus on the kids and tend to their needs knowing that dinner was all ready to go??

Let me tell you it feels pretty AMAZING! Not to mention it’s a healthy meal that everyone will love.   A Trim Healthy Mama Meal.  This Chicken is a Trim Healthy Mama (THM) S meal. Keep joining me each week and I will help you make evenings so much more enjoyable.  You too can be calm and collected and have a great meal on the table EACH and EVERY evening.  Unless of course, you are craving that pizza from around the corner, that’s ok sometimes too!

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